The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The rain was coming in sideways, cutting through the dry-rotted shutters of the keep, and I was already bleeding from a gash above my left eye when the first word hit me. It was not a sound, exactly, but a vibration in the marrow of my jaw, a low hum that resonated in the hollow of my chest. I held the iron key tightly in my right hand, my knuckles white, the metal biting into my skin. The air...

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